I am working on learning more about programming, and am having to try and teach what i know to new hires in our maintenance department. In order to do so i have been making some labs for some of the equipment we have around our plant. I am using a crimson red lion to simulate a number of the labs that use more than a handful of inputs or outputs. Unfortunately, a number of the things i would like to or need to do require complex code to function properly. Is there any where i can acquire a fairly simple syntax list or programming guide?

Take some time to read the "Using Programs" section of the Crimson 3 User Manual, starting on about Page 212.

The syntax and structure are similar enough to ANSI C that I bought a copy of the classic Kernighan & Ritchie 'The C Programming Language' to use as my syntax reference.

One of the weaknesses of the Red Lion products, in my opinion, is their lack of a good programming guide or program cookbook for the C-like language programs. Red Lion users tend to be friendly sorts, and a community library would be very useful but they just don't have it.

Quite a few examples exist on Red Lion's website, even though many of them were written for Crimson 2 and need to be updated. And there are some good Red Lion programmers represented here.

I i am posting to this board first time with a request for some help with an industrial HMI (touchscreen) that interfaces with a programmable computer. My specific request is for someone to help me with retrieving values that are stored to a CompactFlash card. I am able to store values (we call them recipes) to the CompactFlash card as .csv file. I just haven't been able to figure out the code to retrieve this information back to the touchscreen.